Super heavy? Super stupid

[killersheep]

Ug, as long as the end result is the lords of the land making more money in sanctioning fees you know they will do everything in their power to make it happen.

[The Fightfan]

I honestly think boxing should go back to the way it was with only a few weight divisions. Flyweight, Bantamweight, Featherweight, Lightweight, Welterweight, Middleweight, Light heavyweight, bump the cruiserweight up to 210lbs, then heavyweight. I am so sick of these 14 different belt organizations with these ridiculous weight divisions.
Let's be honest is there any difference between 122 and 126? If you answer yes you should be slapped.


Now that I vented a little bit. No I don't think there should a super heavyweight division but I do think cruiserweight should be moved up like I had previously stated.

[generalbulldog]

There has never been a weight limit in the HW division. I say a prime Ali or a 21 year old Tyson could beat any of the HWs today and Tyson was only around 220 and Ali around 215. Even a 208 Holyfield (his prime weight) would be able to beat the Klit brothers.

We have to say thank you to the WBC, WBA, IBF, WBO for expanding the weight classes to 17 and having 4 champs per division. That's the problem right there.

[rjj tszyu]

If this happens then boxing will never become the huge attraction it once was ever again!

[generalbulldog]

A few weight divisions they can get rid of would be the ones separated by 3 or 4 pounds as someone mentioned already. Weight classes separated by at least 5 pounds or more keep them like the jr. lightweights, jr. welterweights, jr. middleweights, supermiddleweights, etc. They can also get rid of the strawweight and jr. flyweight classes and have the flyweight class as the lowest weight class.

The author of the article makes a valid point that the expansion of weight classes just like the expansion of teams for certain sports have diluted the talent level.

Boxing would get rid of many problems if they trimmed it down to something like 11 or 12 weight classes with just 1 champ per divison.

Hell with boxing the state that is in, I wouldn't be surprised if the alphabet gangs ceated an pound for pound division.

[bzkfn]

The fact that a Cruiserweght just beat the biggest Heavyweight in the world for a world title should suggest there is no need for a Super-Heavyweght division. We can barely put together a Heavyweight division, so what is the point of splitting it in half?

[Lance Uppercut]

And consider the weights of the fighters that most recently beat Wladimir Klitschko:

Lamon Brewster 226


Corrie Sanders 225

[Drago]

I agree we need to bump up the weight of the cruisers & get rid of these timy increase lower weights! less weights & 1 title per division is the way to get boxing back on top!

regarding the heavyweight division i remember when u could pick up a book & look at every heavyweight champ all thru history (cos there was only 1 belt) now its a fkin mess & super heavy would make it 10 times worse.

i started a thread asking was it time for a superheavy catergary & i got slated & rightly so!